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Easy Chair: Lefty Lingo
Shriver, Lionel Publisher: Harper's Magazine
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
On contemporary vernacular categorized as left-wing and its tendency towards exclusion.
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Assumptions of the left's prescriptive patois may indicate solidarity with fellow travelrs, but it also betokens the insularity and closed-mindedness of any indiscriminate embrace of fundamentalist dogma. It instantly alienates people who don't sign up for the same set menu of views - which may sometimes be the intention. Referencing the "cis-heteronormative patriarchy" in discussions with strangers suggests either that you presume these people already agree with you on virtually everything, or that you're only interested in talking to them if they do.
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